Why doesn't Python remember the initial directory?

[Piet van Oostrum]

kj <no.email at please.post> writes:

> This means that no library code can ever count on, for example,
> being able to reliably find the path to the file that contains the
> definition of __main__.  That's a weakness, IMO.  

On Unix based systems there is no reliable way to find out this
information. So how could Python reliably supply this?
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